2.8.5 Installer won't run - quits on launch
 

Downloaded and unzipped the 2.8.5 installer to get Limewire Installer.app. Double click it to launch and nothing, it appears in the Dock for a split second then disappears. Didn't launch in 10.1.5 yesterday, I thought I'd have to wait to upgrade to Jaguar (which I also did yesterday). Now running OS X 10.2.3 and it still won't launch. At least v2.6.5 still works for me, although I get the annoying error message that all users must upgrade to 2.8.4 or something at startup...

Any clues? Using a TiG4 Powerbook with 768 MB of RAM...no other problems with Jaguar thus far, I love it.

Thanks in advance,

Nick

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Seems like I had the same problem awhile back with one of their numerous upgrades. I found the uninstal limewire icon and removed everything affiliated with limewire and then redownloaded it from their website and it worked great after that.

Hello I have the same problem
This is my personal solution
lunch Terminal and put the Limeware install 2,8,5 folder on your host folder (apple + alt + H) and on the terminal wrote : "#the name of limeware folder#/contents/Macos/intaller "
#the name of limeware folder# : replace this by the name of your folder
when you wrote this click of return and the installer soft , is lunch
Test this and send me

Damien AZA VALLINA
France
MacOS 10,1,5 G3 500MHz , 640MB RAM

Hello,
I'm having the same problem with the installer. When trying to launch the installer, it appears in the dock and then disappears. I'm running Jaugar 10.2.3. Once I updated my OS to 10.2.3, I noticed the problem with the installer. Any solutions to this problem?

problem solved!
 

On my parents' G4/400, which never had any version of LimeWire installed on it (at least not since I erased the HD last year to install 10.1), there was no problem installing LW 2.8.5 on Jaguar 10.2.3.

So I decided to re-download the LW Installer a few days ago on my PowerBook G4, which had been having the problems, and voila, no problem. Installer ran fine and I'm now running 2.8.5 on my TiBook running Jaguar 10.2.3. It's a HUGE improvement over the 2.6.4 or whatever I was running before!

So try downloading the installer again, if not email me (nyoung@mac.com) and I'll email you the copy of the installer I have...or it should be on my .Mac Public Folder for nyoung.

Good luck!

Nick

I'm having the same problem since I switched to Jaguar.
Damien, I tried your solution, but when I moved the installer to my home directory, nothing happened in the terminal.
I really need to learn some linux!

HELP!! I'm already Limewireless fro two months!

Here is the crash report from the console.

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Date/Time: 2003-01-08 14:23:39 +0100
OS Version: 10.2.3 (Build 6G30)
Host: node1efa5.a2000.nl

Command: LimeWire_Installer
PID: 560

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Code[0]: 0x0000000aCode[1]: 0x6e498b2c

Thread 0 Crashed:
#0 0x92850b80 in __divdi3
#1 0x9284fecc in __divdi3
#2 0x928d385c in dyld_stub_binding_helper
#3 0x92900a84 in JNI_CreateJavaVM_Impl
#4 0x929007a8 in JNI_CreateJavaVM_Impl
#5 0x928db184 in JVM_FreeMemory
#6 0x928c748c in JVM_SetSockOpt
#7 0x928ea950 in JNI_CreateJavaVM_Impl
#8 0x92b12cd0 in launchJavaApplication
#9 0x000029dc in 0x29dc
#10 0x00002768 in 0x2768
#11 0x00002598 in 0x2598

Thread 1:
#0 0x90073c48 in mach_msg_trap
#1 0x90005f90 in mach_msg
#2 0x928ec28c in JNI_CreateJavaVM_Impl
#3 0x928ec224 in JNI_CreateJavaVM_Impl
#4 0x928a51fc in JVM_GetClassMethodsCount
#5 0x90020d48 in _pthread_body

PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x92850b80 srr1: 0x0000f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x9284fecc ctr: 0x90000ee0 mq: 0x00000000
r0: 0x92849b44 r1: 0xbffff850 r2: 0x9284fecc r3: 0x6e498b20
r4: 0x00000000 r5: 0x00000000 r6: 0x000eb160 r7: 0x000eb160
r8: 0x9287cca4 r9: 0xa0000df4 r10: 0x000eb6f8 r11: 0xa00046fc
r12: 0x90000ee0 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000000
r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x000ea830 r23: 0xa28372e0
r24: 0xbffffb50 r25: 0xa28372e0 r26: 0x000eb160 r27: 0x00000000
r28: 0x00000000 r29: 0x000eb160 r30: 0x000eb6f8 r31: 0x9284feb0

Can anyone here translate this into english fro me?!

I too have the same problem. When launching the installer it appears briefly in the dock and then nothing. I tried the removal and re-downloading, but to no avail.

Looks like I spent my money for nothing!

G4 iMAC 800 running 10.2.3

There must be a solutions somewhere, just wish someone one give it.

I have the same problem and it's driving me nuts. Wish I would of kept the one that was running. I have been in contact with support, with no support at all. I just emailed again. I have bought both pro's and now I have neither.Over a month now. I think they ought to give us the new cd.
I'm afaird to try d3a's approch. Guess I need to learn that stuff. Did anyone try?
If anyone has found out anything else on these quacky installers (15 for me) please post.
Vicki

When I run the installer. It just bounces for a minute then exits. If I run it from a terminal, I get the following information:

[JavaAppLauncher Error] CFBundleCopyResourceURL() failed loading MRJApp.properties file
[JavaAppLauncher Error] CFBundleCopyResourceURL() failed while getting Resource/Java directory
Bus error


For those that don't know, a bus error usually means it's accessing memory incorrectly, say calling an address that doesn't exist. Likely, there isn't a fix for it, but is anyone aware of a workaround?

top, has anyone found a way around this? its well annoying